LRAB Chapter 1269: The Need for New Ships
Chapter 1269: The Need for New Ships
White Eagle, inside the villa.
After reading the report that Zhenhai sent back on time, Yang Sikang couldn't help but laugh.
Dong Huang's move of retreating to advance was unexpected, but he believed that Yixian and the others could handle things over there, so he had no intention of intervening.
However, Mingshi, who had just arrived at the main family of Donghuang, was already busy trying to negotiate the deal with Ding'an. This made Yang Sikang feel helpless. What was that guy doing during his time in Sakura Empire? Was there nothing else on his mind except business?
The progress on the Donghuang side is good, and on the other side, the Iron-Blooded Ship Girls are also going quite smoothly.
The convenience of Mavis's family's fleet was even greater than Yang Sikang expected. Although it passed through many important places along the way, it was never carefully inspected once.
There may be factors of deliberate cooperation from the royal family involved, but in order to make the whole process reasonable and not surprising, the reputation of Mavis's fleet itself is also a very important decisive factor, which shows that it is normal for people on the royal side not to conduct a thorough inspection.
Progress was smooth on both sides, and on Yang Sikang's side, things were also progressing in an orderly manner.
The news of the folding technology spread as expected, and all kinds of speculation and curiosity have gradually spread to people who originally would not care about these things. Under such circumstances, the White Eagle ship girls who knew about it first naturally took action.
Yang Sikang simply ignored these things and these days focused on testing Eldridge, which had just completed the ship transformation.
The modification of Eldridge's ship was delayed until now not only to cooperate with his plan, but more importantly, Yang Sikang was not very confident about the entire modification process.
After all, it is obvious that Eldridge of Azur Lane is linked to the Rainbow Project in every way, and he dare not act rashly before he is absolutely sure.
Even though the transformation was completed successfully, he was still very concerned about it. He spent a whole week on various inspections and tests and only returned from the development dock today.
Right now, Eldridge should be outside with Javelin and the others looking for Siren patrols to test the actual combat effectiveness.
It’s not that Yang Sikang didn’t want to go, but during the inspection and testing of Eldridge, Ingraham and Yubari had a sudden idea and proposed to combine Eldridge’s current electrical capabilities with the original protective layer of the Gu Diao so that the two could be connected together.
From their perspective, they are considering combining the energy shield of the Gu Diao with Eldridge's ability, so that when Eldridge is nearby, the Gu Diao can be directly affected by Eldridge's ability and achieve the effect of directly deflecting the shells.
If successful, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance the defensive capabilities of the Gu Diao, reduce many of the attacks originally borne by the shield, and naturally increase the ability to withstand attacks that cannot be deflected.
Moreover, they believe that Eldridge's electrical capabilities are highly developable, but they are still in the stage of understanding.
Therefore, his Gu Diao was requisitioned.
Naturally, he had no way of personally participating in the real-time observation and collection of Eldridge's actual combat data.
But it’s not a bad thing for him.
"It's almost time to put this thing on the agenda."
Yang Sikang found a project with only an outline in the database and began to think about it.
As a commander, Yang Sikang has only two command ships so far. The first one was a modified version of the mass-produced San Diego ship used during the period when he first became a commander, and the second one was the Gu Diao.
To this day, the combat effectiveness of the Gu Diao is still strong. Even if the missile launchers are not counted, the Gu Diao's own firepower, protection capabilities and maneuverability are still impeccable.
But for Yang Sikang, after the experiences and lessons of the previous world, he had a very deep understanding of the words "prepare for a rainy day".
If you wait until something is needed before doing it, it may not be in time. Even if it is in time, there is a huge difference between something rushed and something carefully polished.
What he is preparing to do now is to design a derivative model of the Gu Diao.
Although the Gu Diao is very powerful, the Gu Diao, which is as strong as the Hexagonal Warrior, requires a huge amount of resources and time.
If the cost of making it is exactly the same as that of the Gu Diao, then leaving aside the cost, Yang Sikang may not be able to afford the rare materials and time costs.
Especially now that the expansion space reserved when the Gu Diao was originally built is still sufficient, it can be foreseen that some better equipment will be installed in the future. It is simply a daydream to want to put the Gu Diao into mass production by then!
However, as the size of his fleet grew, the affairs that needed to be handled gradually began to be carried out simultaneously among the various camps.
Now Yang Sikang can no longer lead the ship girls to run around from place to place and solve all the problems by himself like he did before.
Sometimes it is inevitable to act separately. For example, now some of his ship girls have gone to Donghuang, some are in the royal territory and are on the way to Iron Blood, and some are taking Eldridge for actual combat testing at sea. The remaining ship girls are acting freely.
If an emergency occurs at this time, Yang Sikang can only gather some free-acting ship girls at the first time.
Multi-faceted synchronized actions are certainly very efficient, but Yang Sikang also hopes to provide more reliable assistance to the ship girls, such as... a functional ship that can be mass-produced to a certain extent so that every team can be equipped with it!
Although to outsiders it seems that Yang Sikang has everything from common destroyers to aircraft carriers and submarines that require application to build, and there are a lot of each type of ship, which is already a very perfect and enviable situation, but for Yang Sikang this is far from enough.
Basically, the only three people in his fleet who are capable of taking on reconnaissance missions are Helena, Shucheng, and Santiago, who are equipped with SG radars. Among them, only Helena is particularly powerful because of her special combination with the SG radar.
However, once they act separately, even with the combat effectiveness of his fleet, there are still great deficiencies in detection, search for the enemy, and communication, which are not related to combat effectiveness.
In the past, the existence of the Gu Diao could make up for these problems. But now there is only one Gu Diao, and his fleet needs to be divided into three or four teams to act simultaneously.
For him, the time has come to put this matter on the agenda, and it just so happens that the dock and production line are almost ready.